FM July 16, 2025: Mutual Aid / Operation Healthy Hearts

THIS WEEK on FemMag with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: Last month, a few days after the ICE kidnappings began in Los Angeles, rightwing media including Fox News and the NY Post reported that “ Leftwing nonprofit groups are openly helping to fuel anti-ICE riots in LA”.  Among the groups they attacked for sharing PPE kits was Operation Healthy Hearts (OHH) – which is in fact a grassroots mutual aid organization based in Hacienda Heights. We talk to Operation Healthy Hearts founder Jackie Villalta...

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FM July 7: Honoring Tra...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen ::  In a matter of 4 days, we lost two beloved movement leaders – transnational feminist – Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez on June 29 and Native Hawai’ian activist scholar Haunani-Kay Trask on July...

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FM June 30: Feminist E...

THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen :: FIRST … Cherise Charleswell talks to Petra Kassun-Mutch, Founding Publisher of Liisbeth, an indie, feminist ‘zine about post capitalist entrepreneurship. We hear how LiisBeth focuses on the work happening at the...

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FM June 23: Housing No...

  THIS WEEK on Feminist Magazine with host Lynn Harris Ballen ::  FIRST … The national homelessness crisis has reached unprecedented levels and local jails play a direct role in the problem. 15% of all people detained or incarcerated report having been homeless. In California,...

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• FM July 16, 2025: Mutual Aid / Operation Healthy Hearts
• FM July 2, 2025: Where Women Made History
• FM Sept 25, 2024: Bridges Across Homelands / She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
• FM Aug 11, 2024 : Gender Liberation March / Election Security
• FM July 17, 2024 : MeToo & Christine Blasey Ford / Revolutionary Mothering
• FM June 5, 2024:: Conscious Style Guide / Self Care for Activists
• FM May 28. 2024 :: Frida in America / Healing from Military Trauma
• FM April 3, 2024:: Land Liberation & Homefulness / “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”

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